>Number: 4102 >Category: mod_jserv >Synopsis: calling getServerContext() in init causes null pointer >exception >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: jserv >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 22 15:10:01 PST 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: Apache 1.3.3 + JServ 1.0b2 >Environment: Apache with JServ on Linux. JServ classes on NT. JDK 1.2. JSDK 2.0 >Description: I am attempting to call log() in an init function. This actually results in a call to getServerContext().log(). Apparently the ServerContext is null during init, thereby causing the exception.
I don't know if this is the expected behaviour, but it seems odd. >How-To-Repeat: Call log() from within a servlets init routine. >Fix: Initialize a servlet context object before calling init on a servlet? >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
